One of the most important tasks is to understand how things are linked together. With enough "study" we can sense these connections sometimes before we articulate them. The intellect and the emotions can nurture each other. Body and experience make each other. Psychotherapy and social theory can nurture each other. Place and livelihood make each other. Mysticism and semiotics can nurture each other. Most of this is known, but not by many.

Monday, October 26, 2009

According to Oneworld.net, 1 000 people die every day in the Congo. They call this the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. It gets much less press than the Sudan, for instance, where the death rate is lower. Why the imbalance? The violence in the Congo is over control of the mineral, coltan. Coltan is essential for making lap-tops and cell-phones. The main-stream media just aren't going to get excited about a story that calls middle-class life in the G-8 countries into question in this way or other ways. What to do?